Nicholas Bate

Monday is Re-set Day

Accumulative re-sets allow a revolution. 

Zero to Possible, 7

1. Zero soda; maximum water.
2. Zero in-box; maximum filed to category and action list.
3. Zero lifts/escalator; maximum stairs.
4. Zero processed food; maximum fresh, local and cooked by self.
5. Zero blackberry-at-table; maximum great uninterrupted conversation.
6. Zero mall; maximum small, local & inspiring shop-keepers.
7. Zero can't; maximum all things are possible.

Always Helpful, 99

A quiet and time abundant visit to the library.

FRiday Leadership, 7

1. Leadership is not about job title, job grade, position in the structure chart nor special parking place. Leadership is about mindset. Leadership is about does your manner, your voice, your tone and what you say encourage people to do their best work? And does your track-record suggest you have a right to say such things?
2. Leadership is a tough and lonely job in which many will not like you all of the time. That's why you're a leader: to steer a path which many are not sure they can maintain because of lack of strength or too many distractions or too many seductions.
3. Leadership is providing clarity, direction, counseling, tools, guidance, reading, T&D, inspiration, coaching so that ultimately someone can lead themselves. The more you invest upfront in the leadership task the greater the return further along the journey.
4. Leadership is helped by role models. Choose these carefully. Celebrity rarely demonstrates leadership well. Military leadership is often embedded in very special circumstances. Oft-mentioned business and political leaders sadly fail repeatedly on integrity and although they 'get things done' leave a trail of damage around them.
5. Leadership needs connection. There is 'hi-tech' e.g. e-mail and there is 'hi touch' e.g. coaching. Both are critically important.
6. Leadership requires learning. Which means mistakes will be made. Great leaders admit to such mistakes, learn and never repeat the error again.
7. Leadership requires standing up, taking responsibility and owning consequences. Anyone can be a leader. Only a few are willing to stand up and out from the crowd.

Thinking Thursday, 7

1. It solves innumerable problems; just give it time.
2. It'll take you any place you want to go; just focus.
3. Think proactive: what do I need to anticipate?
4. Think critical: what do I need to do better?
5. Think lateral: what do I need to do differently?
6. Combine it with walking, reading and writing for a true superpower.
7. Why under use possibly our greatest asset alongside the gift of language?

Always Helpful, 98

You don’t have to be right.

You just need to get wiser.

Jeroen Sangers

Is here.

Michael Wade

All I said was….

For Wednesday

The Bach Joy Mix.

What Heals?, 21

1. observing nature at work, perhaps blossom in the northern hemisphere
2. strolling a quiet museum early one weekday
3. talking one-to-one, hand-in-hand
4. taking a decision, long delayed
5. hugs
6. a great movie seen again
7. writing
8. helping someone
9. baking bread
10. a plan
11. ironing a long abandoned stack of shirts and realising it wasn’t so bad
12. switching off all screens for a while
13. a really good, dedicated cheese shop
14. changing scale and reminding oneself of the grandeur of it all
15. polishing shoes
16. lego played with an industrious toddler
17. any Beatles track
18. sharpened pencil on paper
19. hot water and grated ginger, sipped
20. making lasagne, carefully and authentically layered
21. stacking wood for the wood-burner